Software Development Engineer III - User Interactive Service

Tesco UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Welwyn Garden City seeks a tech lead to mentor junior engineers and manage technical projects using Java and Spring. You will contribute to building scalable systems and ensuring delivery quality in a hybrid working environment. The role also includes promoting engineering best practices and mentoring teams.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Inclusive culture

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java 8+ and the Spring Framework.
• Experience with REST APIs and cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of designing and building scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure quality and efficiency in team deliveries.
• Support scalable live products with many users.

Skills

Java 8+

Spring Framework

REST API

Event driven architecture

Cloud platform(s)

NoSQL databases

Designing scalable systems

Scrum and Kanban methodologies

Tools

CI/CD workflows

Kafka

Reactive programming

GraphQL API

Micronaut framework

Job description

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a career, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else.So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

Your impact reaches beyond your immediate team, and youprovide perspective and context for technology choices across your directorate.

The work that you do has foundational impact across teams in your area and the directorate that you aremember of. You area technical leader for your teams and others will regularly come to you for mentorship and support.

You arecomfortable both supporting other engineers in their delivery and taking the lead on key features as appropriate. Youhave delivered multiple projects that move the needle for the business. Youhave demonstrated technical breadth and depth.

You display a high degree of ownership for the work conducted by the team. You areaccountable for the quality of every result, produced by individuals and teams. You arean advocate of engineering best practices.

Youbuild maturity in the way we develop, deliver and operate services. Youensure that your team are learning from the best in the industry, designing and implementing appropriate testing and deployment strategies. You will be responsible for supporting highly scalable and exciting live products with many end users.

You can anticipate feature evolution of the product. Youutilise this when facilitating design sessions to ensure that the system architecture evolves to support future requirements. You understand the wider Tesco architectural strategy and champion its application to the systems that you work on. At this level your job starts to become just as much about exercising technical judgment as it does about implementation.

You arecomfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Youcreate optimal outcomes combining short-term and long-term goals, utilising data driven decision making techniques to take appropriate trade-offs. Youcan identify risks and proactively engage with product and programme managers.

You arean effective communicator within your team and the stakeholders.

You area trusted mentor, a role-model for more junior engineers, beingapproachable and are frequently asked to mentor others.

You prioritise sharing skills and technical knowledge across the directorate, both informally in 1:1 discussions and by arranging more formal training opportunities.

You build capability and raise the bar by contributing to hiring and interviewing practices. Youregularly participate in recruitment assessments.

Externally yourepresent the best of Tesco Technology to attract new talent and encourage interest in our organisation.

Must have:

• Java 8+.
• Spring Framework and ideally Spring Boot for building robust applications.
• REST API.
• Event driven architecture.
• Cloud platform(s) (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc.)
• NoSQL databases.
• Designing and building scalable systems based on software engineering best practices.
• Experience working with multiple software development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban.

Good to have:

• Experience implementing CI/CD workflows.
• Kafka.
• Reactive programming.
• GraphQL API.
• Micronaut framework.
• Experience implementing observability including monitoring and distributed tracing.

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Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.